Minutes of Meeting - April 21, 2010

Dear All,

Wonderfully productive call this evening.

From solid foundation, do great things grow.......

Below are minutes from the call.

Look forward to chatting next week at the same time.

Have a great week,

JB

Identified Clear Roles and Project Areas:

1. Chairing Committee (Calender for rest of the year & Agenda for meetings) - Andy Dorn

2. Template for GIN Action Sheet - Rick and Andrew Brinkman

3. Student Committee - Andrew & Justin

4. Resource Gathering - Andy & Rebecca

5. Website Development - Jenny & Rolly

Summary of the where we are at:

• - Website not just teacher resources, also have a student engagement

• - To create this student engagement have a sub-committee of students who will have direct input into it's design

• - Andrew has talked to IT teacher at his school that would be willing to volunteer a group students to test run anything that we can create.

• - One way of welcoming new schools to the GIN network could be through the site, have part of the site explaining what GIN is and how to facitate startup groups for GIN

• - Rolly has done a lot of good work on starting sites up. Created a portal that links to 3 platform - NING for networking. DROP.IO for resource sharing WIKI - for connecting on Action

GINDO Conference - KNOW CARE ACT Conference:

• - Local schools and international schools

• - Interest from local indonesian schools to be involved in GIN

• - Evolved out of GINDO - projects were very similar to each other. Students were able to discuss projects with each other and discuss how they were appropriate

• - Great model for other regions to connect with local schools and local youth to see what they are doing

• - Will be another one at Rick's school next fall

Potentially Regional GIN Events:

• - Bangkok is thinking of potentially creating a regional event

• - Vietnam is thinking of connecting to this

Rick & Andrew suggested we draft up template to sew what other GIN Schools are doing in Asia:

• - What have GIN groups done and will be doing?

• - Keep master data base for GIN groups to cross reference

Bec Highlighted Design for Change: We can

• - Launched a competition: http://www.designforchangecontest.com

• - Ted Talks watch it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Y2sj_G4Njg

• - Idea to create a competition within GIN Asia students

Poverty Lesson Unit Plan

• - Good Model

• - Has KNOW. CARE & ACT built into it.

Student Parallel Committee:

• - Goal of committee: work on student side of the website.

Andy working on creating Resource / Framework for Action:

• - Inquiry Cycle

• - Documents and templates that will assist students for action

Edits on Language to Portal - ROLLY YOU ROCK!

• http://piqsel.com/ginasiapacificdemo/

• This is the GIN-Asia Pacific Portal.

• KNOW is the gateway to a document upload service*

• CARE is the gateway to a discussion area in Ning.

• ACT is the gateway to a wiki discussion on Action and Partnerships (NGOs, etc.)

• *Upload a file directly into the document sharing service by sending it as an email attachment to: ginasiapacific@drop.io <mailto:ginasiapacific@drop.io>

Action Items from Last Call:

1. all members of steering committee discuss possible platforms for sharing resources with respective IT support in schools + independent research. Whilst continuing to collect resources from colleagues.

2. EARCOS intern proposal (for site manager who will sustain the site once it is up and running) will be pursued by Justin (with WAB support)

3. The formation of a Student Body (parallel steering committee) to be discussed further (Justin and Andrew?)

4. Kelly ann (WAB) is developing a teacher event. To be held at WAB sometime in the future.